Joining the home of Streptomyces research
We welcome the latest group to join an ongoing quest to understand Streptomyces - a bacteria crucial to human health and medicine - led by Professor Matt Hutchings
Read the storyWe welcome the latest group to join an ongoing quest to understand Streptomyces - a bacteria crucial to human health and medicine - led by Professor Matt Hutchings
Read the storyResearch reveals how a newly discovered structural feature of RNA helps regulate gene activity and could be used to fine edit traits in crops
Read the storyPlants have to interpret temperature fluctuations over timescales ranging from hours to months to align their growth and development with the seasons
Read the storyThe process by which plants use a prolonged cold period – winter – to promote flowering is known as vernalization
Read the storyWe asked Quantitative Plant Biology Editor-in-Chief Dr Olivier Hamant his thoughts on why this new journal is important and how taking a quantitative approach can generate interesting questions and answer them accurately
Read the storyResearchers have characterised a gene from an early flowering Arabidopsis mutant and showed that the mutated gene encodes a protein that modifies chromatin - that is it affects the chemical modifications of the histone proteins that surround the DNA in our cells
Read the storyA new paper by Dr Xiaofeng Fang from the Professor Caroline Dean lab has been able to show how proteins that shape chromatin and RNA processing machinery physically interact
Read the storyHealthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet (HP³) is our vision for achieving a safer, healthier and more sustainable future through the power of plant and microbial science
Read the storySarah Wilmot re-visits the history of the ‘People’s Choice’ for ‘Plant of the Decade’; Streptocarpus and the breeding of it here at the John Innes, celebrating the contributions of two Alumni from our horticulture team
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